Treatment Tracker
The Doctors and Services in Medicare Part B
This database was last updated in December 2017. It should only be used as a historical snapshot. More recent data is available via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ lookup tool.
LARA MARCUSE M.D.
NEW YORK, NY, 10016
How This Provider Compares
This Provider
Avg in State & Specialty
Providers in this state and specialty were reimbursed, on average, $348 per patient in 2015.
They performed about 11 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.
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How This Provider’s Patients Compare
Doctors often say their patients are sicker or more complex than those of their peers. The measure displayed below, used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, takes into account patients’ characteristics to estimate whether they are expected to have above-average Medicare spending. It considers patients’ age, sex, diagnoses from the past year and other factors. This provider’s score below takes into account all of her Part B patients.
This Provider's Services
This provider performed 17 different services in 2015
(8 were redacted as they were performed on less than 11 patients)
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CATEGORYDescription of Service |
Times Performed (or Units) | This Service's Rank | Patients | Unique Visits Per Patient |
Billed to Medicare | Payments from Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MEDICINEMonitoring and localization of seizure activity over 24-h... + Monitoring and localization of seizure activity over 24-hour period using 16-channel electroencephalograph (eeg) × Service Code: 95951Performed in a facility |
292 times performed, 35% of her services |
1st 23rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
89 patients got this service, 37% of her patients |
3.3 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2.4) |
$321,200.00an average of $1,100.00 per time performed |
$84,417.20 an average of $289.10 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes × Service Code: 99214Performed in an office |
141 times performed, 17% of her services |
2nd 3rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
80 patients got this service, 33% of her patients |
1.8 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.8) |
$70,600.11an average of $500.71 per time performed |
$12,065.37 an average of $85.57 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTSubsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes ... + Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day × Service Code: 99232Performed in a facility |
118 times performed, 14% of her services |
3rd 7th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
33 patients got this service, 14% of her patients |
3.6 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 2) |
$28,320.00an average of $240.00 per time performed |
$7,078.82 an average of $59.99 per time performed |
MEDICINEMeasurement and recording of brain wave (eeg) activity, a... + Measurement and recording of brain wave (eeg) activity, awake and asleep × Service Code: 95819Performed in an office |
82 times performed, 10% of her services |
4th 45th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
76 patients got this service, 31% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$114,800.00an average of $1,400.00 per time performed |
$29,884.90 an average of $364.45 per time performed |
MEDICINEDigital analysis of electrical brain wave activity (eeg) + Digital analysis of electrical brain wave activity (eeg) × Service Code: 95957Performed in a facility |
80 times performed, 10% of her services |
5th 73rd most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
67 patients got this service, 28% of her patients |
1.2 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.4) |
$28,800.00an average of $360.00 per time performed |
$7,412.80 an average of $92.66 per time performed |
MEDICINEMonitoring and localization of seizure activity over 24-h... + Monitoring and localization of seizure activity over 24-hour period using portable 16-channel electroencephalograph (eeg) × Service Code: 95953Performed in an office |
35 times performed, 4% of her services |
6th 129th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
11 patients got this service, 5% of her patients |
3.2 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.4) |
$52,150.00an average of $1,490.00 per time performed |
$12,079.90 an average of $345.14 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTInitial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per... + Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day × Service Code: 99222Performed in a facility |
19 times performed, 2% of her services |
7th 16th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
19 patients got this service, 8% of her patients |
1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1) |
$8,740.00an average of $460.00 per time performed |
$2,233.07 an average of $117.53 per time performed |
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENTEstablished patient office or other outpatient, visit typ... + Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes × Service Code: 99215Performed in an office |
18 times performed, 2% of her services |
8th 10th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
17 patients got this service, 7% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.4) |
$10,800.00an average of $600.00 per time performed |
$1,895.94 an average of $105.33 per time performed |
MEDICINEMeasurement of brain wave (eeg) activity greater than 1 hour + Measurement of brain wave (eeg) activity greater than 1 hour × Service Code: 95813Performed in a facility |
13 times performed, 2% of her services |
9th 155th most performed service for this provider most performed service in this state & specialty |
12 patients got this service, 5% of her patients |
1.1 average number of visits a patient made for this service (Peers: 1.1) |
$4,030.00an average of $310.00 per time performed |
$1,052.61 an average of $80.97 per time performed |
Office Visits
Medicare reimburses office visits using a five-point scale, with five being the most intensive and costly. The chart below shows what percentage of this provider’s office visits were reimbursed at each level. A higher than average proportion of costly visits is not necessarily an indication of a problem, but it may be worth asking about.
This provider charged Medicare for about the same percentage of 5’s as her peers
Lara V Marcuse
Average for Neurology Providers in New York
Notes: Medicare redacted this data for any services provided to fewer than 11 patients. The contact information listed above is the most current we have for this provider. The services listed on this page may have been delivered at a previous address or as part of a different practice.
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Sources: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, American Medical Association
Services that begin with a letter come from CMS. All other codes and descriptions of the medical procedures are from the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, copyright 2015 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Where practical, AMA’s consumer friendly translation of the CPT descriptor was used. ProPublica has received permission from the AMA to use these codes on this site.